[westi]

We have been providing a stable and reliable API for a long time.

Just because it doesn't look like how you envisage it should doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Matt's post was true at the time and WordPress.org the open source project has never been "holding back the php community". Instead we have been ensuring that the most important people, our users, are able to upgrade reliably and easily on whatever hosting platform they use.

In the end we put the users first because without them the project would just wither away!